Association of Christian Schools International v. Stearns

2008), was filed in spring 2006 by Association of Christian Schools International against the University of California claiming religious discrimination over the rejection of five courses as college preparatory instruction.

[1] On August 8, 2008, Judge S. James Otero entered summary judgment against plaintiff ACSI, upholding the University of California's standards.

[3] The Association retained leading intelligent design proponent Michael Behe to testify in the case as an expert witness.

Behe's expert witness report claimed that the Christian textbooks were excellent works for high school students and he defended that view in a deposition.

Plaintiffs' own biology expert, Professor Michael Behe, testified that "it is personally abusive and pedagogically damaging to de facto require students to subscribe to an idea.

For example, Biology for Christian Schools declares on the very first page that: Biologist PZ Myers wrote, "The judge pointed out that the books that Behe approved flatly state that Christians must accept creationist conclusions—unlike our biology books, which don't demand any religious litmus test of their readers—and were therefore perfect examples of exactly the problem he was complaining about.